Antonio Maria Abbatini ( or 1610 – or 1679)
was an Italian
composer
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Etymology and def ...
, active mainly in
Rome
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.
Abbatini was born in
Città di Castello.
He served as
maestro di cappella at the
Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orvieto in 1633; and at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1640 and 1646, 1649 to 1657, and 1672 to 1677.
[Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ''Abatini, Antonio Maria'', 1999] He composed
church music, and published three books of
Masses, four of
Psalms, various 24-part
Antiphons (1630, 1638, 1677), five books of
Motets (1635), and a dramatic
cantata, ''Il Pianto di Rodomonte'' (1633). He also worked with
Athanasius Kircher on the ''
Musurgia Universalis''.
In addition, he produced three operas: ''
Dal male il bene'' (Rome, 1654; in collaboration with
Marco Marazzoli), which was one of the earliest
comic opera
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Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...
s, and historically important as it introduced the
final ensemble; ''Ione'' (Vienna, 1666); and ''La comica del cielo'', also called ''La Baltasara'' (Rome, 1668).
Antonio Cesti was among his pupils.
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17th-century births
1670s deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Year of death uncertain
17th-century Italian composers
Italian Baroque composers
Italian opera composers
Italian male opera composers
17th-century Irish male musicians
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